B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5223

brightness mag 5.83B2IIIe

Also catalogued as HD 120991 · HIP 67861

10,838 K

temperature

5.83

apparent magnitude

40,550,854× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IIIe

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

40,550,854×

the Sun's light output

-14.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5223B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5036 →41,000 ly apart
HR 5027 →57,000 ly apart
HR 5124 →61,000 ly apart
HR 5281 →72,000 ly apart
HR 5403 →75,000 ly apart
HR 4908 →75,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.